Wire bale tie



A. K. JEFFERSON.

WIRE BALE TIE. APPLECATION FILED OCT. 31, 1921.

1,409,724. Patented Mar-14,1922.

UNITE STATES PATENT orries.

.ALISTER KYLE JEFFERSON, OF STRATHFIELD, NEW SOUTH. WALES, AUSTRALIA.

"WIRE BALE TIE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

latented Mar. 314., 1922.

Application filed October 31, 1921. Serial its. 511,895.

filed application in Australia, No. 17,830, on

September A. 1)., 1920,) of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to wire ties for wool bales and other bulky packages containing material of a resilient nature and which require great strength in the binding means to prevent the bale or package from bursting.

Wire ties in themselves are not new and various means and devices have been adopted for securing together the ends of the wire constituting the tie.

The object of my invention is to provide a wire tie which may be readily fastened around a bale, in which the pull on the fastoning is in a straight line, and the give is reduce to a minimum.

A further advantage arising from my invention. is that the fastening of the tie ends may be er'fected without axially twisting the wire, and this-is a very important point when handling stifi' wire passed around a bale and therefore having little room for manipulation.

My invention consists in a tie composed of a single length of wire bent at one end to the form of an elongated hook, while at the other end it is formed into a loop of sulficient width to allow the said hook end to pass therethrough, the extreme end portion of the wire lying parallel and adjacent to the wire at the base of the loop and on the same side thereof as the point of said hook, and said loop in side elevation being of flat V formation.

My invention also consists in a bale tie as aforesaid further characterized in that the hook is kinked so that-portion of it lies in a plane slightly inclined to the plane of the adjacent portion of the wire. This construction facilitates the interlocking of the ends.

My invention further consists in a tie as aforesaid, still further characterized in that the wire atthe root of the hook is kinked laterally to still further facilitate the interlocking of the ends.

To more clearly describe the invention reference will now be made to the accompanying drawings in which, Fig. l repre sents perspectively a wire tie constructed according to this invention, and Fig. 2 shows to larger scale the two ends in plan and opposed, while Fig. 3 represents the same in side elevation. Figs. 4: and 5 represent successive steps in the interlocking of the ends,

and Figs. 6 and T the completed fastening in i plan and side elevation respectively.

The tie A illustrated in Fig. 1 has formed at one end a hook B and at the other end a loop C, and at a point D at the hooked end is kinked as shown in Figs. 2, 4i, 5 and 6, andsaid hook is about midway of its length defiected from the normal plane as clearly shown in Figs. 3 and 7.

T he loop C is so formed that viewed in side elevation it has the configuration of a fiat V as clearly shown in Figs. 3 and 7.

ln-applying the tie it IS bent around the bale in such manner as tobring the hooked and looped ends into opposed position as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. The hook B is then passed through the loop C and is deflected so that the end E of the hook is to one side of the base of the loop C as shown in Fig. 4; this can readily be done while the tie is slack on the bale as when the latter is in a dumping or like press, the kink at D permitting the said disposition of parts with a minimum deflection of the hook end from the straight line.

The end E of the hook is then passed under and to the other side of the base of loop C (as shown in Fig. 5) by simple manipulation of the hook end'of the tie, and'the hooked and looped ends being pulled in opposite directions by expansion of the bale consequent on the releasing of the pressure exerted thereon by the press, the end E oi the hook returns through the loop C until further progress thereof is prevented by the underlocking of the parts, and the fastening is then complete as shown in Figs. 6 and 7.

It will be seen from Figs. 6 and 7 that the wire being bent to the same side to form both the hook and the loop, the pull on the fastening is in practically a straight line, and thatithe fastening is of such character that no strain short of breaking the Wire will cause it to come adrift if the wire used is of the gaugeand quality ordinarily used for the purposes to which wire ties are applied.

What I claim and desire to secure by Let on a transverse axis so that portion of it is ters Patent is inclined to the plane of the adjacent portion 10 A bale-tie comprising a wire bent at one of the wire and said loop being inclined and end and to. one side to form an elongated arranged at an angle to the W1re. 5 hook, and bent at the other and to the same Signed at Sydney this twenty-seventh day side to form a loop angular-1y disposed and of September, A. D. 1921.

of sufiicient width to permit the said hook to pass therethrough, said hook being bent ALISTER KYLE JEFFERSON. 

